Evansville Weekly Journal, Volume 14, Number 15, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 1 June 1848 — Page 3

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

(gj-The Largest Weekly Paper, containing more Reading Matter, and the Cheapest published in the State IXDUCEMNXTS TO SUBSCRIBE. Single Subscriptions, - $2,00 8 Copies for - - - - 5,00 ? do do 11,00 10 do do - - - 15,00 PAYABLE I XV ARIABLY IN ADVANCE THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 1. K3The details of the foreign news brought by the Caledonia, has crowded out by itslength several other matters of importance, but it is interesting and we do not feel willing to abridge it. Phospect of Peace. The intelligence from Mexico brought by the British steamer Tay, is of a nature that leaves but little doubt as to the ratification ot the treaty. Among other letters received at New Orleans it is said is one from the house of Macintosh & Co., which speaks in the most decided terms on the subject. The opposition it is said, is already reduced down to 13 members, and even that opposition arises from a desire to belong entirely to the United States, and the dread of revolution and anarchy after our troops have withdrawn. It is said that an article will be added by the Mexicans, stipulating that the American army shall remain until after the sickly season. The real object being to insure the preservation of order, and give stability to the Government af ter the treaty is ratified, and until they can have an opportunity to make and consolidate the new organization. The election of Herrera i3 a highly favorable circumstance, and we offer our sincere congratulations to the American people, on the present prospects for a speedy termination of this "unprofitable contest." We learn that the greatest joy is expressed in our army, at the prospect of an early return to their country and friends, after so long and painful a separation. IllPHOVEMESTS 15 Is DIANA E.AJL RoAD FROM New Albaxt to Lafayette. We learn from the New Albany Bulletin that a number of gentlemen representing the different counties interested in the extension of the New Albany and Salem Rail Road, connecting it -w ith the trade of the Northern Lakes, at Lafayette, Indiana, met at Bloomington, on last Friday week. The most enthusiastic feeling was evinced in favor of the enterprise. The Hon. P. C. Dunning and Lewis Bold man, Esq., addressed the people, taking high grounds in favor of the citizens in several counties through which it is intend to pass, of immediately subscribing for stock sufficient to carry it through, and in answer to the feeling thus expressed, the people responded ia tokens of the most favorable and enthusiastic character. On Saturday, as the delegates were returning, and in passing through Lawrence county, a meeting was called at Bedford, at which the same .good feeling denied to animate the citizens in reference to the same subject. All expressed the deepest solicitude to see the work in such a state of progress as would authorize them to reach out their arms to em brace the advantages resulting from its exten sion. On Monday last, at Orleans, in Orange coun ty the citizens of that village and vicinity, had assembled and a general desire was manifested to learn something concerning the history and character of the improvement when a meeting was called and explanations given by Mr. Brooks, touching the probable cost of the road and it3 advantages to the community. A pro position was presented and voted upon unanimously raising an amount of money sufficient to complete the survey of the Road from Sa lem to Bedford, and tt is in contemplation to survey the route, between the two points, at as early a day as practicable. . Takino off a Shehift. A Wisconsin pa per comglaifl3 of an outrage committed upon a Sheriff, up in "those parts" by the Captain and crew of the steamboat Pearl. The Sheriff went on board of the boat to secure a debt when the crew overpowered him, cut the boat loose, and proceeded down the river, with the Sheriff an unwilling passenger on board. CCjT'Tbe Cincinnati Herald, after noticing the rase of the slave in the Covington jail who killed his wife and child, and then cut his own throat to prevent being-sent to wear out a mis erable life in the rice swamps of Carolina, or the sugar phatatiom of Louisiana, makes the following statement: "A lawsuit has already arisen as to the man on whom the loss should fall they having been sold by Mr. Rust and placed in jail, while it is contended by the pur chaser that the bargain was not completed. How mean and miserable does such quarreling over the dead and bleeding bodies appear," CrrThe Legislature of Tobasco has passed a resolution offering an asylum to the fugitive Yucatanese. CCJ-H politics should happen to grow warm this summer, we hope the 'clerk of the weather' will think of us, and send us few such days like yesterday and the day before. A cooling breeze and a gentle shower now and then may possibly prevent our inkhorn drying up; but yesterday and Sunday it wes too hot to talk or think, and writing was altogether out of the question. Ob, how we wished, while pouring over exchanges, that we were up to our neck in the. Mammoth Cave. There one might keep cool and keep bis temper too, but out here pur "sufferings is intolerable." If May weather produces such feelings in us, how will the dog-days operate on our locofoco neighbors? We tremble for them. CQT"It is stated in late London papers that Mr. T. C. Bakewell has invented a copying Telegraph, which by means of a single wire will execute at any distance at the rate of 500 lettits p?r minute, a complete fac simile of any written or printed communication. If this is 'cbrrect, we m ill doubtless ha'c further particular ?lio'rltv." - -

CC3The State Journal learns from Colonel Blake, one of our Canal Truster s, who passed through Indianapolis on his return from Washington city, that Congress passed an act permitting additional selections of land to be made to aid in the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal. Under its provisions it is estimated that about one hundred thousand acres will be received for that object.

(X3The Louisville Courier of Monday publishes a proposition, sent to the editor, to organize a corps of 500 young men from Louisville, to go on to the Young Men's Ratification Convention, to be held in Philadelphia on the 8th of June, to urge the nomination of Clay for President, and Taylor for Vice President. With this view, subscription lists will be opened at the Journal and Courier offices. 03" An industrial Congress is to assemble at Philadelphia on the first Wednesday in June. It is called by the name of land reformers and workingmen'sorganization, but all associations of laboring men are invited to send delegates. 03The Cincinnati Chronicle says: It is estimated that between seven and nine hun dred barrelsof whiskey arrive da ilyat that port. What goes with it all? CQfThe editor of the Vicksburg Sentinel is curious to know "whether Gen. Taylor wears his shirts long or short." We should think, that anything like a shirt might very reasona bly be a subject of curiosity to the editor. C&Gen. Scott has yielded to the im portunities of the New Yorkers, and con sented to visit that city on Thursday last. He met with an enthusiastic reception from the citizens of Elizabethtown, New Jersey. . (GtNicholas P. Teist, Esq., arrived at St. Louis on Tuesday last, on his way to Washington by way of the Lakes. The New Era states that he is ordered by Gen. Butler to report himself under arrest at Washing ton. The N. Y. Courier states that the first of a shipment of 15,000 barrels of Flour, destined for Liverpool, reached that place by way of canal, direct from Toronto, Canada thus open inga new route of internal communication for trade. (XZrYi9Consin extends from Lake Michigan to the Lake of the woods a distance of 1,100 miles. Dividing this whole territory (which is by far too large for one State) into twoequa parts, each part would be as large as the great State of New York. "O Cabby Me Back.' The Cincinnati Commercial says: "An aged slave, who had been recently liberated in Virginia, and sent to Indiana, passed up the river yesterday, on the steamer Telegraph, alone, on his return to his old master. His heart was in "old Virginny" and he had uo happiness, even with liberty, in the land of strangers. His agecould not have been less than 70. The American Commercial Marine have eighteen hundred ships engaged in foreign trade constantly on the ocean. The value of these vessels and cargoes may ba safely set down at &250.000 each, producing $420,000,000 as the total value of American shipping on the sea at all limes. Besides this, there are at least fif teen hundred vessels constantly loading and unloading in foreign ports. In France a recent investigation has devel oped the fact, that a large number of the recent recruits of the army, are women. Love of excitement and want of profitable employ ment, are the causes of this unnatural state of things. r 0C2A Kentucky lady has just presented her delighted lord with three babies two girls, and one boy. The editor who announces the tidings, innocently adds that "she is doing well." Unquestionably she is. It appears from statistical returns that there are in France 10,282,946 landed propiietors, 213,168 stock-holders, 38,305 owners of annu ities, 154,875 pensionrs of the State, 104,325 individuals holding offices requiring a security and 627,830 individuals paid by Government Finally, France comprises 23,241,120 proprie tors, agriculturists, manufacturers, merchants. and artisans. Illinois akd Michigan Canal. The lolls received at Chicago for the first five days after the opening of the canal amounted to 81 ,42650. So says the St. Louis Republican. fX5The Dublin Freeman Journal, in speak ing of the visit of Father Mathew to the Uni ted States, cautions Irishmen against receiving him in any other capacity, than as an "Apostle of Temperance," as it declares him to be the agent of the British Minister. Look Here Boys! There was one resolu tion which you passed the other day up at warn f .. . Section Ten, , wnicn, n we misiaKe nor, looks rather disrespectful, if not ironi ml. W .Dublish it. that you may see it, be ashamed of yourselves, and take it "Resolved, That if there be a 'Mexican r&rtv' in this couutr-v. it must be that one which is willinzto exoend an hundred millions of dollars in war, and then pay twenty millions more 1o incorporate Mexican territory and mexican people, (half breeds and all) in 10 our own country," If it were not for that vtry miserable expression about "half breeds" contained in the parenthesis; the thing might be tolerated; but to call our Mexican fellow-citizens by so odious a name one calling the purity of their blood into question, is too ferocious. Columbus Jour. CC5"-The Lawrenccburg Register does Gen. Lane great injustice, (perhaps not intentionally,) by endorsing that part of its correspondent's letter relating to the conduct and language, of that officer upon taking posession of a Mexican dwelling. The whigs look upon Gen. Lane as a gentleman. We are sorry to see his political friends making him appear in any other character. But every one to their taste ! State. Jnnrnnt.

SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

- ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA!! IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING ! ! THINGS IN FRANCE. WAR DECLARED AGAINST AUSTRIA BY THE POPE OF ROME. Threats against the P pe. THE MARKETS, &c. New York, May 27. The Royal mail steamer Hibernia arrived to day, having sailed from Liverpool on the 13th inst. The following intelligence, being seven days later, was received by her. low and middling cotton had declined 1-od. The French coast has been ordered to be placed in a state of complete defence, and sev eral new regiments had been called out. The new .trench tro vera men t appointed has proved a complete triumph of the moderatists. Louis Uianc and Abut have retired. Ledru Rollin, of the opposition, has with drawn from the Assembly. Conflicts have occurred between the Russians and Poles. . The Pope of Rome has declared war against Austria. Further skirmishes have taken place between the Austrians and Italians. The Austrian army is said to be in a critical situation. The Danes have blockaded the German ports. Insurrections have transpired at Madrid. Funds during the week have been very nervous. On Thursday, Consuls were quoted at &l 1-2. On Friday, they closed at 83 3-4. The Danish blockade operated disadvantageous upon trade in the manufacturing districts, as also does the Italian war. The intervention of England or France, it is hoped, will put a stop to hostilities. The harvest promises an abundant yield, which depressed American Breadstuffs. The Citizens of Italy have quarrelled with the Pope about declaring war against Austria. The Pope made a speech against it. The peo ple rebelled, and the Pope was finally forced to yield. Ihe people threatened to depose him and establish a Provisional Government. Nothing has been received by telegraph about Ireland or the LUartists.i Commercial Intelligence. Corn is in de mand. We quote for White at 26a27s. Yel low at 28a29s. m Breadstuffs. Meal 12s 3d, per 196 lbs; Flour sweet, 4b&4i$. Cotton. The imports of Cotton have been large. The demand is moderate. The sales of the week amounted to 24,120 bales. The quotations are for Orleans 3a6d; Mobile 3a4Jd; Upland 3ida5JJ. Provisions. Pork, prime Mess 55a70s 3d: Prime 45s. Bacon 36a52s. Western Lard, fine in kegs 42a45s; in bbls. 39a40 3d. Tobacco is dull. FURTHER DETAILS. larsTjiuisgTioij xn spain. PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS. ' THE POPE DEPOSED! CONFLICT AT POSEN. Spaix. An insurrection of a serious nature had broken out at Madrid, and though unsuc cessful, had caused the death of the brother of Marvius Christina 34 insurgents were taken prisoners and shot. Ireland. lhe repeal movement is actively carried on. There has been a great addition of frotestants to its ranks, hmitli O JJrien has been dismissed from the magistracy. The Queen is to visit Ireland in the summer. Rome. The people of Rome, aware of the uncertainty of the policy of Pius Ninth in re gard to the Italian question, had been stimula ting him tor some time past with addresses to induce him to declare war against Austria. He assemDleu trie college ol Cardinals in consistO' ry and made a speech which caused the great est anxiety through Rome. The ministry re signed en masse, but Pius refused to accept their resignation. Un the 30th ult. a full gen eral staff held a sitting, and the municipal autnoriiies went in procession to the rope to de mand explanations as to his policy, and recom mended lum to abdicate, lhe civic guards of the city had orders to let no one, whether Bishop, Priest, or even the Pope himself, leave the town. On the. 24th the excitement was ex treme. The Pope has been allowed time to consider to the 30th. It appears that should he refuse, a Provisional Gevemment would be established, and the Pope imprisoned. Late accounts state that the Pope revoked the decla ration of war, and that the people had deposed him. Poses. Bloody conflicts have taken place between the Russians and Poles, on the 24th ult.. and the Poles who had nearly 200 men killed and 700 made prisoners, defended themselves with desperate valor, causing a loss of nearly 100 kiled and wounded of their assailants. A similar fight occurred at Miloslaw, where the Prussians suffered much from the fire of the Polish sharp shooters, who picked out the officers. Several hundred Polish soldiers of the eighteenth and nineteenth regiments deserted to the Poles. Persecution of the Jews at Presbckg. The Jews had been atrociously treated, their household furniture destroyed, and they were taken from their shops. The plunder lasted 24 hours-, when the Jews, numbering 300 families retired from the town, at the request of the au thorities, and encamped in the open air. At Schlosberg, even the Jewish Hospital has been ransacked, and the sick were taken from their beds and badly treated, without respect to age or sex, while even the Jewish tombs have not been respected. Military authority could not dispose of sufficient force to prevent their acts of vandalism. Lieut. Field Marshal, the Count of Lamberg, was wounded by the people. Markets. Liverpool, May 12. Corn Market American white corn has been in good demand at 26 to 27s; yellow do, 28s to 2iJs extreme rates at close 24a29s. The sales of Indian meal have been at 12s to 12s 6d ier 196 lbs, but at close the market was less firm rales lis lOd to 12s. The rates Western canal Flour are 26a27s, a further concession. Baltimore, May 27. After the opening of the Convention this morning, the minutes of the Convention were corrected. The delegates of Pennsylvania voted for Cass on the last ballot. Mr. Hallitt, of Mass., reported a series of resolutions reasserting the former principles of the party. One that the Government has no power to make internal improvements; that they have no power to control domestic institutions. The resolutions were adopted. The Southern delegates protested that they did not go far enough, and offered substitutes therefor, which were rejected. After the usual routine of business, the Convention adjourned sine die. Pittsburgh, May 27. ! A fire occurred last night, at the lower city wharf, which consumed the steamer Ben Rush. There are 6 feet water, in the channel, and falling at the rate of 1 foot in 24 hours. The weather is very pleasant.

Democratic National Convention. 33r We are indebted to the clerk of the Childe Harold for a Cincinnati paper of Saturday, from which we copy the following : Baltimoke, May 25. Mr. Hannegan under instruction of the Indiana Convention, offered a resolution declaring that the Hunker delegation from the State of New York were entitled to cast the vote of that Slate in the Convention. Mr. Ramsey, of Tennessee, read Mr. Polk'9 letter, declining the nomination of the Convention. McCandless nominated Buchanan; Judge Ellis, of Mississippi, Gen. Cass;and Hamlin, of Maine, Woodbury, of Mass. Cass was nominated on the 4th balloting, receiving 179 out of 254 votes. Butler was unanimously chosen, as the candidate for Vice President on the 2d ballot. SECOD"DESPATCn. The Barnburners left the convention. At the 1st ballot Cass received 125 votes, Woodbury 53, Buchanan 54, Dallas 3, Calhoun 9, Worth 6 total 250 2d ballot Cass 153, Woodbury 56, Buchanan 59, Dallas 3, Worth 5 total 276. 3d ballot Cass 156, Buchanana 50, Woodbury, 51 Worth 5 total 262.

4th ballot Cass 179, Woodbury 3S, Buchanan 33, Worth 3 total 253. Congressional. Washington, May 25. The Senate was called to order,: and proceeded to the consideration of the morning business. Mr Niles moved to take up the resolution which he had previously offered whether the interest on the public debt should be paid otherwise than by specie The motion was agreed to, and Mr. Niles was speak ing when this despatch closed. HOUSE. Mr. Wick introduced a bill to prohibit the importa tion of slaves into the District of Columbia, which was read twice. Several members moved for a call of the House, whieh was agreed to. The House then adjourned until Friday. BY THE WESTERN7 TELEGRAPH. St. Locis, May 25, Riot at Galena. Richard White was arrested for a murder committed in Ireland, last October. He was demanded by the British Government, under the treaty. Papers were authenticated, and placed in the hands of the United States marshal, who arrested White and took him to Galena. The friends of White raised a mob, and forcibly took him from the marshal The conduct of tho mayor of Galena is highly censured. IMPORTANT FBOM MEXICO. We are indebted to a friend, at present in New Orleans, for files of papers from that city up to the 22d, brought by the steamer Magnolia which arrived here on yesterday. We copy the following from the Commercial Bulletin of the 22d. The news brought by the Tay leaves but little doubt on the minds of the ed itors of the New Orleans papers as to the ratifi cation of the Treaty. The British Mail Steamer Tay, Capt Sharp from Vera Cruz, arrived at Ship Island Harbor on Saturday evening the 20th, bringing us dates from Vera Cruz of Tuesday the 16th, from the city of Mexico, those of the 14th, and Queretaro as late as the 12th, all three dars later than the dates received by the Massachu setts. The news which she brings is of more than ordinary interest, as far as concerns the action of the Mexican Congress upon the great ques tion of Peace. The English Oourier arrived at Vera Cruz on the morning of the 16th inst., and brought down the intalligence, that the Mexican Congress assembled at Queretaro on the 5th inst., and that they had elected Herrera as President Pena y Pena, however, still holds the office of President ad interim, and will continue to do so until the health of Herrera is sufficiently established, to enable him to preside over their deliberations. Letters have been received at Vera Cruz from responsible and creditable persons at the seat of Government, which state positively that the treaty will be ratified on the 25th of the present month. We are assured that there can be no doubt of this fact. Oh the 12th inst. but 15 members were opposed to its ratification. Those opposers consist of Almonte, with four teen Pueros who advocate the annexation of Mexico to the United States. Their hope is that this may be accomplishedin order that both life and property may be ren, dered more secure. The first step have been taken by the Mexican Congress, to revise the tariff of 1845, from which, however, 40 per cent will be deducted. This will have the effect of shutting out of the market nearly all the American manufactured Cotton. From Mexico, we learn verbally, that Lieut. Hare, of the Pa. volunteers, has been found guilty. An insurrection among the Indians, against the whites has lately occurred near Orizaba. The extent of the damage done we do not know, but understand that they have driven several families from their farms. From Vera Cruz the news is of but little importance. The yellow fever is very bad, and many deaths have occurred. When the Tay left, Mr. Beebe, sutler in the army, and formerly of St. Louis, was dying. Capt. Jordan, U. S. Q. M. has been ill, but is now recovering. Gen. Kearney started for the city of Mexico ou Saturday evening, the 13th, with an escort. On the day following 1200 troops started after him, their destination is not known positively, but it is said they are intended for the city of Mexico. The object of the Commander-in-Chief in thus increasing our armed force there can only be surmised. The troops now remaining in Vera Cruz, are only the first Regiment of artillery and the Louisiana Battalion. The departure of General Kearney has placed Col. Henry Wilson in command at Vera Cruz. . A few days before the Tay tailed, a party of officers ascended the peak of Orizaba, and planted the American flag oh its summit at an elevation of 14,000 feet. The message of the President Peny y Peny to the Mexican Congress is too long for us to copy, the following, however, is a synopsis of it. The message, which is written in very mild, gentle terms, breathes nothing but peace, and seems to advise every concession to obtain that desirable object. It commences by saying, that it is almost impossible to realize the present aspect which public affairs mear, when com-

pared with the late unhappy situation of the

country. The President then declares the Congress assembled, according to the laws of the Republic, andentersintothe history of the war. and its cause, which he says, was the annexa tion of Texas to the United States. He pays a compliment to the Mexican army, though he almost says that they did not fight with the spirit of a people defending their own homes. He defends his own conduct, since President, and invites scrutiny into his public acts. In one place, he states thatit is impossible to sus tain a war with the United States; but in an other paragraph says: "I never did bilieve, nor do I now believe, that the Republic of Mexico is incapable of waging a successful war against the United States." He, however, continues, b saying that it were best that all the past dif ferences be forgotten, and thatCongress should at once settle the question in peace. He says that the Americans have learned the Mexican people a grand lesson, which he hopes they will profit by, and also entreats them to forget the past, and to try and place the country in the position she was before the war, so that their children will not have reason to curse their memories. He draws a vivid picture of the state of the country under the war with com merce stopped, public and private bankruptcy, and all the attendant horrors. He refers to Yu catan, and says that if they were at peace, the assistance which is demanded by their suffering bethren, could be given, and concludes by saying, that the treaty of Guadaloupe is the only thing which can regenerate the country, and preserve its nationality, and appeals to their good sense and patriotism to ratify it, which he urges upon them in the strongest terras. LATER FROM THE PLAINS. Murder of Mormons. St. Louis, May 28th. By an arrival from the city of the Salt Lake, I learu that the Indians had attacked the Mormons, and.murdered a uuaiber of men, women and children. An express came to fort Leaven worth asking for assistance. No cause is as signed for the outbreak. Locisiana. In relation to the Crops we have cheering intelligence. The Shreveport Journal of the 15th inst. says: "Having inquired of persons from all sections of the surrounding country, we have had the most flattering accounts of the growing crops. The stand of cotton is elegant, and in fine growing condition. The corn crops have been represented to us as equally flourishing." ThejConcordia Intelligencer othe 20lh says: "The influence of the rains of this week on the cornfields has been remarkable. Twenty-four hours had not elapsed after the rains of Tuesday evening, wheu they showed the new life which had quickened the growth of the plant. Although this influence is not so quickly perceptible in the cotton plant, the benefit received by it is even greater, as at the time of the relief the stands were about to suffer. As it is, few have been seriously injured." CCT"The London Morning Chronicle, speculating on the present state of Europe says: 'Not a week peace can be counted on not a Lday, not an hour." Correspondence of the Phila. N". American. New York, May 21, IS IS. Areivalof Gen. Scott. The brig St. Peters burgh arrived this forenoon at the JNarrcws, from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed ou the 4th inst. Gen. Scott and some members of his staff were passengers. Our Council and citizens have prepared a glorious reception for the war-worn hero, who carried the scars of 1812 so gloriously into the unexampled campaigu of Mexico. His New Jersey friends deferring to his wish to have no ostentatious display, have had a steamboat in readiness to convey him immediately to Elizabethtown where Jhis family are awaiting his return. At the same time com mittees from our city are in attendance, urging him to visit us. As I write lam unable to state what his movements will be, but I am inclined to believe that he has proceeded directly to New Jersey. St. Giles, Loxdox. The following U a de icription of a single lane, called Church Lane, in the city of London, within the limits of St. Giles. Not long since the London Statistical Society appointed a committee to examine the sanitory condition ot this lane. A member of that committee furnished the London correspondent of the Christian Citizen (Elihu Burritt's paper) with the following tacts : The lane is 300 feet long, and contains 32 houses It is lighted by three gaslights, and water is supplied three times a week, but no tanks or tubs were to be found. I will simply give two or three houses that he visited, as a fair avsrage of the whole. Many things ore too disgusting to epter the columns of a newspaper, and therefore I shall only give some of the leading fncts. The first house that the committee visited contained 45 persons, only 6 rooms and 12 beds! windows broken in filth abundant. Ia the second there were 56 persons and only 13 beds. In the third there were CI and 9 beds, averaging nearly 7 persons to a bed. And these of all ages, sex es and conditions. This is as horrible a etnte of things as ever one could imagine to exist, and as it is a real, stern fact, there Uno virtue in shutting on's eyes to it. A majority of the windows were broken, and the cold night wind could not fail to sweep in and inflict colds and consumptions upon the inmates. The occupations of this miserable class are of great variety -some are fruit dealers, some sweeps, some knife grinders, some mendicants, some crosssing sweepers, some street singers, and many thieves and prostitutes. The committee say in their report: In these wretch ed dwellings all ages and both sexes, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, grown up brothers and sisters, stranger adult males and females, and swarms of children the sick, the dying, and the dead, are herdled together with a proximity and mutual pressure which the brutes would resist; where it is physically impossible to preserve the ordinary decencies of life, where all sense of propriety and self-respect must be lost. Such is the state of Church Lane! Would that it were alone in its notoiiety! Alas! there are many others quite as bad. But how much these poverty-stricken things are to blame for their state is a solemn question to answer. New Orleans, May 24. Sugar Fair is worth 3i3ic. Flour The market is rather firmer: 1200 bbls were sold at4,37i5,00. Corn A sale of 630 sacks Yellow at 40c. Pork Mess 9,0069,121; Prime 7,121; M. 0. 8,75. Lard Sales at 516c. -Hay Western 16,25017,00. Whiskey Rectified 16c. SODA AND BLUE LICK WATER. AC. f IALLOCK has erected a fine Soda Fountain for the accommodation of the public and requests those who appreciate a cooling drink in a hot, dusty day. to give him a call. Also constantly on hand pure Blue Lick Water from the Drennon (Ky.) Springs. my.26. : ICEl ICE!! i - . fl JNSTANTLY kept for retailing at the store of V nisy'Jb , L.LilL OL IIUWLS.

The Progress of the Glaciers. The following extract gives a melancholy picture

of the gradual enlargement and extension ofi ihe Glaciers, an enemy by which however slowlv and silently the fertile valleys of the Alps in Switzerland, would seem destined, ultimately-, t be overwhelmed and lost to man; it is from the 'Switzerland in 1847,' of Theodore Mugge, recently translated from the German, and published in England: "In travelling through the Kander Valley, I h id the company of a pleasant, intelligent m hi, a Pns'or, who, in spite of rain and wind, gave me a great deal of information respecting ihe mode of life of the people ol his parish, as well as concerning the Mountains around, with which he appeared thoroughly acquainted. He confirmed the account that I have invariably heard fiom inhabitants of the country, that the glaciers and masses of ice on the Alp, are constantly incteasing, and the pasture land diminishing in the same pio portion. Many a valley he was himself ac quainted with, which in the last century fed large heids of cattle, where now scarcely a single head can pick up a scanty subsistence Thus, for instance, the Gaster Valley a hundred years ago afforded pismire for six bundled cows, dining ihe summer; fifty years ago, hIioiii Imlt'thut number could find food; now it will barely support seventy, This ssme c mplaini I heard repeated in iiianv ilill't ient quarters, by the herdsman ou the Fmka and in the Grisous. The ice and snow arc continually augmenting, the glaciers are pressing down more and more into the valleys, and rilling litem up; rhe temperature is sinking, the soil deteriorating and growing rmrshy. U'hii can be the cause of litis alarming change? Are the Alps rising higher, forced upvvaids by some powerful actiou of subterranean fue, a cause that is concciviblc with the chalk formations? or docs (his alteration of climate proceed from accidental causes . ! of a temporary nature? This much is cer tain, that where large frees once grew, no tree will crow now; and that lurge roots are found beneath what is now everlasting snow. In some valleys, where the mountain sides are clothed with firs, they are evidently dying away, and no art can make a young pi filiation prosper. In the U.-etn Valley, the few pines left by Suwatrow remain, but they do not increase; and in descending from the Wengner Alp, at the foot of the Jungfiau, to the Grindewalde, you see to t ie left, a number of dying pines, whose blackened branches have as spectral an appearance as those on the Altenlord, Norway, beyond the polar circle. On the Wengner Alp itself, attempts have been made for years to encourage the growth of trees but they cannot succeed; and it is not till three or lour hundred leet lower tbat they Hour ish in luxuttant vigor. A Le-son of Wisdom. Count Moniholon, iu his reminiscences of Napoleon, gives the following remarks from the life of that "conqueror and captive of the world," wheu an exile in St. Helena "When recollect ions,1 said he, "crowd upon my memory, when my thoughts are no longer occupied here (St. Helena) with po litical topics and local vexations, I am car ried back to my first impressions of the lile of man. It seems to me always, in these mo menu of calm, that I should have been the happitst man in the world with 12,000 Trances (a little more than 2,000) a year, living as the father of a family, with my wife and son, at our old house at Aj iccio. You remember its bc-autilul situation. Happy hours! the native soil has infinite charms. Memory ernhillishes it with all its powers, even to the very odor of lhe ground, which one can so realise to the senses as to be able, with the eyes shut, to tell the spot first trodden by the foot of childhood. Come place your hand upon my bosom! See how it beats! (And true it did beat with great rapidity.) It is like the sound of a bell added he. There is none here, (St. Helen I am no longer accustomed to hear it. The sound of a bell never strikes my ear, without carrying back my throoghts to the sensations of my youth. The Angelus bell led me back to pleasant reverie?, when, iu the midst of my earnes thoughts, and burned will) the weight of an imperial crown, I heard its first sound under the shady woods of St. Cloud, and often have I been supposed to be resolving the plan ol a campaign, or digesting an imperial law when my thoughts were wholly involved it dwelling upon lhe first impressions of my youth. Western Eloquence. The following are extracts trom tne siieecn oi me lie v. air Magoon, of Cincinnati, made at the anniversary of the N. Y. Baptist Bible Society on Friday last. "it seems strange to me mat we scrape every cent we sun reach to send the Gospel lo our very antipodes, and forget those who come to our own laud lo make iheir homes. Do Catholics build schools and colleges? We may do lhe same. Let us meet ihern in kindness, in philanthropy, in discussion, and win the in. Should a Catholic build on one corner of my house, an infidel on another, and a jew in front, when I came forth from my morning devotions I would say. Good day, to each, and ptay that God would bless them all. When another speaker told of the Persecution of Baptists by ihe French King, he might have goue farther he might have told how a man rose in Paris and battled nobly and successfully for their cause, and that man was a foreigner every where it was Cremieux, lhe jew subsequently called in the Providence of God, lobe Min ister of justice. It is our privilege to give all men freedom lo worship God. If they are in error we may pity them, but should never abuse. But the greatest obstacle to be removed is defum t Protetanism Evangelism congealed. Some men came lo the west who had the odor of sanctity, who had perhaps been active class leaders on this side of the Mountains, but they had left all the Christian heat they ever had behind them ihey wete volcanoes burnt out. They would stop in some devoted place and sotlie down, the select who it of God's harvest preKestinated from all eternity to sit in their internal laziness while the world waspertshishing around them. They are the fossil remains of Pharoah's lean kine; possessed of a vis inertia almost sufficient to stop the wheels ol the Almighty's chariot of mer cy, and banish every ray Cl Uis glorj from man."

DtsTiTUTioi and Distress in Irelasd. We have sometimes thought it a sin to remain cold lookers-on at the destitution and degradation of Ireland, brought on as It wa?, by the rapacity of the British Government of the adlierants and pampered officials of the English crown. Although claiming no affinity to Irish blood, or Irish land, we have in dark solitude, shed many a tear, when the awful situation of that unfortunate people rose up in our imagination. A heart must be a heart of stono indeed, that can look coldly on, witnessing the desolution, distress and degradation of the unfortunate poor of Ireland. For our own part, wc wonder that the world all men of sympathy and religion do Rot interfere to free that country from the galling slavery, robbery and murder of her innocent men, women and children. Surely something lertible will follow her

oppressors, or the piincipie ot ngnt nas changed. To show vividly the distress of poor Ireland, we give the following: It is an extract of the speech delivered by Mr. Rey nolds in the British House of Commons, Apia il, during the discussion on the bill to punish seditious speaking, with transportation for seven years, or for life. "All the towns of large populatatiou in Ireland were quiet and obedient to the lawjind yet honorable members, who knew no more of that country thin of New Zealand, said they would vole for this bill because Ireland was dist'iibed. He denied the allegation, as a libel upon . his country. Let honorable members consider the distress that existed. Let him remind them that in Ireland, 1,000,000 of human beings had sunk intotheirgraves from starvation within 18 months. Let them remember the horrible case that within a fortnight bas been brought before the Galway Assizes, in which a man had been convicted of sheep-stealing, and Mr. Dobbin, a stipendary magistrate, had applied in favor of the ptisouar, on account of the exteuuating circumstances in his case. One of bis children had dip.rl nf atnrvnf inn find (Ka wifn nf thf? man had fed upon the flesh of that child before he violated the law to procure food, Mr. Dobbin had caused the body to be disinterred, and the limbs were found picked to the bone. In that case the judge and jury shed tears, and the man was discharged. That case was an illustration of the widely-spread and terrible distress under which his countrymen were suffering." Bring this destitution home lo our own dwellings, and the imagination can picture, faintly, the anguish, the distress of the poor in Ireland. See them parting daily with loved ones, who are thrown into unhallowed ditches, amid the weak howling of starvation from those friends who must soon follow! It is a subject that "unnerves us quite," and while we write we tremble to approach and mention the state of misery which caused a parent to feed upon the flesh of her child! No wonder the "judge and jury shed tears!" The uuiversal world, it seems to us, would weep at such a sight. Speak not to us tf "obedience to British laws" to be expected from a people oppressed as the Irish are! Obe. dieoce to such a state of things is hateful. We wonder that quietness has been so long observed. One million human beings hare met death by starvation, and still the living are quiet! The people ore cannibalizing ou their own offspring, and still quiet! Is it not wonderful? Who will out say the Irish are forbearing? very-forbearing?--more forbearing than there is reason in more "obedient" than any other people would be, and more oppressed than any other people can be. Will ihey cftitinue quiet? We shall see! Cin. Com. Coming it ovkr thb Jcdiciary. A young chap, of this county, who had made up his mind to take a wife, applied a few days since to the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for a license to perpetrate matrimony. Being a minor, and the application being strongly opposed by his mother, who is bis only surviving parent, il.j Clerk was constrained to withhold the necessary document. Nothing daunted at this, the youngster set himself at work, to contrive the ways and means to do the lawful, to his expecting dulcinea. Having secured the services of a promising limb of (he law, who has an inkling of the tricks of a keen legal practice, and who holds it no damning sin to come it over tne pig wigs, tie suddenly made bis appearance in company with a Iriend, in open court, and by his counsel demanded the privilege to choose a guardian, according to the law in such case made and provided. This, as there was no one to oppose, was gianted, of course, and choice was made of the friend in attendance. No sooner were the proper ceremonies for the induction of the guardian into office complete, than the first act of ihat functionary was performed, by issuing an order to the Clerk ci the Court, to have tbat license forthcoming, inslanter. As the legal obstacle was removed, this was done, without hesitation; and iu a few moments lhe loviug candidate for nuptial joys was speeding, on the winks of love, and on ihe back of a good horse, to the arms of his best beloved. The only reason why the honorable Court does not call up the young practitioner, and Caudle him, is ihat the judges are afraid they can't keep iheir countenances during the performance. Ohio Stale Jour. "There are few sights," says Mr. Fortune, 'more pleasing than a Chinese family in the interior, engaged in gathering ihe tea leaves, or indeed in any of their agrecultural pursuits. There is the old man, patriarcb-like, directing his descendants, many of whom are in their youth and prime, whila others are in their childhood, ia the labors in the field. He stands in the midst of them, bowed down with age. But to the honor of the Chinese, as a nation, he is always looked up to by all with pride and affection, and his fild na nnt gray hairs are honored, revered, and loved tin f -i . t - . vnnen, alter tne laoors ot the day are over they return to their humble and hannv km their fare consists chiefly of rice, fish and vegetables, which they eniov with rreai zaf. and are happy and contented. I really believe that there is no country in the world, where the agrecultural population are bet' ter off than they are in the north of China Labor with them is a pleasure, for its fruits are eaten by themselves, and the rod of the oppressive is unfelt unknown." Spark Mi.-.Vtes. Spare minutes are the gold dusfjt ,,,,,. and Young w wriling a true well as a siiking line, when ha tauaht thit"aauda make the mountain, momeuts make the year.1' Of all the portions of our life, the spare minutes are the mnat fruitful in good or evil. They are the gaps througU which temptations find the easiest access ;u the gaidea ol the soul.